Foreign-born citizens are correlated with better academic achievement and mental health in comparison with native-born. The phenomena is widely recognized as immigrant advantage. Many factors influence the advantage foreign-born immigrants experience. Examples of influencing factors are: Family, SES, education, and career. This study will focus on the family aspect of immigrant advantage, specifically: family structure and relations, nativity characteristics, stressors, culture and cohesion, and early educational involvement.
“Children and adolescents in immigrant families face several challenges” (Mood, 1) such as acculturation, discrimination, socioeconomic deprivation and contradictory expectations from individuals and groups around them (in regards of norms and behaviors). Despite these disadvantages, immigrant children are found to perform as well in academics and often better equipped to address both “internalizing and externalizing problems” (Mood, 1). Family structure and relations of immigrant families differ that those of native-born families in several areas: Divorce rates and family climate.
“Divorce or dissolution of non-marital unions is common in many western countries” (Mood, 3), where the children from these unions experience parental separation before …show more content…
“Educational outcomes varied by parents's region of origin” (Sullivan, 149). Some immigrant children outperformed students from native-born families and some performed significantly worse, further confirming the influence of nativity characteristics. This phenomena is attributed to the “heterogeneity of immigrant families” (Sullivan, 158) from the same origin areas. However, since different nativity area produce different outcomes, it suggests that immigrant advantages in academic and mental health is only experienced by immigrant children of select national origin, not
“Children and adolescents in immigrant families face several challenges” (Mood, 1) such as acculturation, discrimination, socioeconomic deprivation and contradictory expectations from individuals and groups around them (in regards of norms and behaviors). Despite these disadvantages, immigrant children are found to perform as well in academics and often better equipped to address both “internalizing and externalizing problems” (Mood, 1). Family structure and relations of immigrant families differ that those of native-born families in several areas: Divorce rates and family climate.
“Divorce or dissolution of non-marital unions is common in many western countries” (Mood, 3), where the children from these unions experience parental separation before …show more content…
“Educational outcomes varied by parents's region of origin” (Sullivan, 149). Some immigrant children outperformed students from native-born families and some performed significantly worse, further confirming the influence of nativity characteristics. This phenomena is attributed to the “heterogeneity of immigrant families” (Sullivan, 158) from the same origin areas. However, since different nativity area produce different outcomes, it suggests that immigrant advantages in academic and mental health is only experienced by immigrant children of select national origin, not